Cutting RAG inference costs 6x starts with deciding what never reaches the LLM
Most teams building retrieval augmented generation (RAG) systems for high stakes classification make the same architectural bet: Route every ambiguous case straight to the language model and trust the retrieved context to sort it out. This works fine in a demo. It falls apart the moment the system has to survive an audit, a regulator, […]
Enterprises with AI context layers report agent failures at more than twice the rate of those without one
A company builds a governed context layer specifically to stop its AI agents from confidently giving wrong answers. Once that layer is live, the company is more than twice as likely to report the failure happening — not less. In the past six months, 68% of enterprises have traced a confident but wrong AI agent […]
An eval harness found what qualitative review couldn’t: AI models are most confident when wrong
There is a step in the development process for large language model (LLM)-assisted tooling that most teams skip because it’s tedious, time-consuming, and doesn’t produce results visible to end users: Verifying that what the model is saying is actually correct. Not fluent, not coherent, not topically relevant — correct in the sense of accurately identifying […]
DeepSeek’s top-ranked V4 Flash stumbles on real agent tasks as its prices surge
DeepSeek’s V4 Flash has topped model leaderboards and been hailed by developers as a “total monster” since its rollout. But in real-world testing, it completed just 53.8% of a batch of complex agent tasks. Composio ran the model through eight different agent harnesses, including Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode, on 30 deliberately difficult, multi-step tasks […]
GLM-5.3 is here with advanced cyber capabilities — and reportedly already found a ‘serious vulnerability’ in Cursor
Chinese AI startup Z.ai, known internationally for its growing lineup of powerful, largely open source GLM series of language models, today released GLM-5.3 with substantial gains in long-horizon coding and a more consequential — and potentially sensitive — jump in cybersecurity capabilities. Already, GLM-5.3’s cyber capabilities have found a “potentially serious vulnerability in Cursor,” the […]
Three Claude agents given conflicting orders sabotaged each other on a shared server — then didn’t tell users what they’d done
Every Claude model Anthropic tested turned on its own, and no attacker made them do it. Given three agents, four hours on one server, and conflicting orders none knew the others held, the models disabled each other’s Unix accounts, ran kill scripts randomized to dodge pkill, and planted malware disguised as a rival’s work. There […]
Google’s Gemini 3.7 Flash targets coding and agents with a 50% introductory price cut
Google is rolling out Gemini 3.7 Flash, a new version of its workhorse AI model that puts coding, agentic workflows and knowledge work at the center of the upgrade — while temporarily cutting API prices in half. The release arrives just three weeks after the release of Gemini 3.6 Flash, an unusually short turnaround that […]
SpaceXAI debuts Grok 4.6, overtaking Kimi K3’s performance and matching GPT-5.6 Sol for world’s third best on Artificial Analysis
Elon Musk’s company SpaceXAI, formerly known as xAI, has released Grok 4.6, its latest frontier AI model, with a focus on long-running agents, coding and knowledge work — and a pricing strategy designed to make those workloads cheaper to run. The model scores 61 on the third-party Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, surpassing the popular open […]
DeepSeek Harness launches as open source rival to Claude Code, alongside V4-Pro on API with higher prices
DeepSeek is expanding beyond the model layer and deeper into the software developers use to put AI agents to work. The Chinese AI lab on Thursday launched the official version of DeepSeek-V4-Pro, an updated flagship model focused heavily on agentic workloads, alongside DeepSeek Harness v0.1, a new open-source agent harness that gives developers an alternative […]
Why Capital One built its multi-agent AI platform around open-weight models
Presented by Capital One At VB Transform 2026, Kel Vanee, MVP of machine learning engineering at Capital One, spoke with Sam Witteveen, Senior Technology Contributor at VentureBeat, about how the bank built a scalable multi-agent AI architecture around deeply customized open-weight models rather than relying on an off-the-shelf foundation model. “At Capital One, we’re not […]